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CVE-2026-64558 (GCVE-0-2026-64558)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-29 16:31 – Updated: 2026-08-17 04:57
VLAI
Title
s390/pkey: Check length in pkey_pckmo handler implementation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/pkey: Check length in pkey_pckmo handler implementation Explicitly check the length of the target buffer in the pkey_pckmo implementation of the key_to_protkey() handler function. The handler function fails, if the generated output data exceeds the length of the provided target buffer.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 8fcc231ce3bea12b78bb94b280cdc03cff342435 , < 02028a24e26d85262ab9c8fc4344e1f3503007fc (git)
Affected: 8fcc231ce3bea12b78bb94b280cdc03cff342435 , < 433e5e70cdc1edf382d28d08a885b22e2b98b7da (git)
Affected: 8fcc231ce3bea12b78bb94b280cdc03cff342435 , < 614aa0491c7a190556c2345dddee0b6f5ed90989 (git)
Affected: 8fcc231ce3bea12b78bb94b280cdc03cff342435 , < 1ac287e2af9a9112fe271427ef45eceb26bce8b4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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